The Baltimore Sun

An image gone up in smoke Remember pipe smokers? They are still around, but they are no match for their hip, cigar-puffing colleagues.

Yes, yes, it’s old hat by now, you’ve heard all about it. Cigars are hip (ho-hum). They’re sexy (so what else is new?). There are magazines and radio shows and even a Marxist dictator dedicated to ...
AZ Central

Scottsdale history: Pipe smoking as a cure for high blood pressure?

Back in the 1930s my dad, a successful lawyer in Grand Rapids, Mich., had some stress and tension problems that his doctor felt were due to how intense he was about every phase of his life. Having ...
journalgazette

Out of the smoke of history: Riegel's a city mainstay of 150 years

How fitting that in 1874, when America’s most famous cigar smoker, President Ulysses S. Grant, was puffing up to 20 cigars a day, one of Fort Wayne’s most storied businesses opened its doors, becoming ...
MLive

Swartz Creek pipe smoker's wins puffed him to fame

SWARTZ CREEK, Michigan -- Dean Vargo recalls the day his dad got "the call." Dean was a teenager and it was in late 1975 that his dad, William Vargo, had just recaptured the World Pipe Smoking ...